Posted on 04/10/2020 10:56:55 AM PDT by Boomer
New York City officials trying to process a rising coronavirus death toll have been forced to ramp up burial operations at its public cemetery from one day a week to five.
Aerial images captured on Thursday showed 40 caskets lined up for burial at Hart Island — the same day New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo reported 799 new deaths across the state. Normally, about 25 bodies a week are interred there, mostly for people whose families can't afford a funeral, or who go unclaimed by relatives.
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Potter’s field in a city of 10 million.
Hyped much?
still not as bad as a bad flu season, why is this only an issue now?
That’s where NYC buries bums and homeless. They have for decades.
True that and with a death rate of around 200 per day on average in NYC; one wonders how many are destitute who would end up in a mass burial like this anyway. At least they get their own pine box.
An even better question is why aren't these bodies being cremated if they are so riddled with disease?
The city corrections department has used inmates to bury the Big Apple’s anonymous and unclaimed dead for 150 years.
Fake news.
From what I read, it’s tearing through the illegal alien population like the ‘85 Bears.
There likely won’t be any family to claim them and they’re certainly not going to foot the bill to bring the body back where they belong.
You could show pictures of hundreds of dead people lying on 5th Avenue and the psychopaths would still rationalize arguments to get what they want.
>>That’s where NYC buries bums and homeless. They have for decades.<<
Yep, “unclaimed bodies” they call them. They average around 20+ a day, so this is just a typical day in NYC.
Because the island is condemned. Not exactly easy to get to.
I wonder what percentage of “COVID-19” deaths are from street homeless, who are exposed, and not in the best of health even in good times.
Plus in cold weather, they hang out in the subway, which is a prime place to get exposed.
fake news !!!
Some call it Necra Island
It's been used for other unpleasantries.
Bullchit. People with family don’t get thrown into a mass grave unless people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. They aren’t. This is like that stupid truck trailer interior picture. It showed 8 body bags in a city of many millions like it was something special.
That is not true. Once a family member leaves home for the hospital the family will not see them again unless the ill person recovers. There is no retrieval of a body. Next step is a memorial service not a funeral. No body is available. Either cremated or buried without family around.
First hand info from someone whose family died in NYC.
I misunderstood somewhat. Sorry about that.
Yeah, except that we AREN'T seeing pictures of hundreds of dead people lying ANYWHERE, are we?
You are a true Fearbro. And what is it that the "psychopaths" want? Freedom? The ability to live our lives, unfettered by the unconstitutional dictates that hand-wringing fear-mongers like you seem to support?
The simple pine coffins are a real throw-back to the 19th century.
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